At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.